Drop One of 45 Social Icon Sets in your Newsletter

Posted on February 21, 2012 by in Development

Our war on creating-newsletters-from-WordPress-is-so-damn-complicated has a new chapter in its book.

We’re rolling out a simple but efficient little weapon:  the social bookmarks widget. This latest item in our arsenal will be shipped with our upcoming release. Probably next week. It’s out. Read about it all.

This new feature is inline in keeping our newsletter plugin a 100% HTML-free experience. It’s also the foundation of our gallery widget which will eventually roll out in the spring or early summer. Update: we won’t do it because multi columns is not mobile friendly!

I dropped all 45 creative commons icon sets in a single newsletter to test them. This is what an overdose of social icons in Wysija looks like:

Right, you’ll never do that. But at least you see the possibilities.

We included icons of popular social bookmark plugins, like AddThis. The others were found online and are distributed under Creative Commons.

We focused on 4 networks:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Google+

You can tinker with it to add any bookmarks you want with a quick FTP visit to the wp-contents/uploads/wysija/bookmarks folder.

How does the widget work?

Drop the widget in your newsletter and this is popup will be presented to you. Fairly straightforward affair.

Social bookmarks popup

The widget itself can be resized and aligned as you please. Great for pixel perfect positioning. Just the way my partner Jonathan wanted it to be while coding it. He’s an elite digital sniper, didn’t you know?

About Kim

I'm one of 7 guys working on Wysija. I take care of support & frontend stuff. And yes, you've guessed it, I'm not a girl and I'm not Asian. Kim is a guy's name in Norway. Read more about the team of seven.
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8 comments

  1. joke March 1, 2012 at 5:23 pm #

    I can’t wait! great.

    Reply
  2. Geoffrey Gentry July 17, 2012 at 11:54 am #

    Hi,

    I have just installed your plugin. I am going to love it! However,whenever I go to the Social widget, I can’t see any choices to choose from. I do see where to modify the link addresses but, the green choice box is empty reguardless if I press small, medium, large. Ofcourse whenever I press done nothing happens.

    Help please!

    Reply
    • Kim July 17, 2012 at 4:02 pm #

      Good to see you followed up in a ticket. :-)

      Reply
  3. Luis September 20, 2012 at 2:14 pm #

    Hi, how you doing? You did great job but i have a problem with social icons, I dont find the way to chage 2 of 4 icons, always show the same, I dont understand. Thx for your help

    Reply
    • Kim September 20, 2012 at 2:19 pm #

      Hey! Create a ticket in support.wysija.com and attach a screenshot. We’ll help you there!

      Reply
  4. James March 15, 2013 at 10:49 am #

    Hi Kim,

    Any reason other icons are not supported like YouTube, Pinterest etc?

    Thanks

    Reply
  5. rosenthal May 8, 2013 at 6:51 pm #

    Yes Youtube, and any other social media site. Why is there no choice there?

    Reply

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